Description
Book SynopsisScrutinizes major news coverage in the early days of the antiwar movement. This work shows in detail how the media first ignore new political developments, then select and emphasize aspects of the story that treat movements as oddities.
Table of ContentsPreface to the 2003 Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. IMAGES OF A MOVEMENT
1. Preliminaries
The Struggle over Images
2. Versions of SDS, Spring 1965
Discovering SDS Framing an Action,
I: The Chase Manhattan Demonstration
Framing an Action, II: The March on Washington
to End the War in Vietnam
Identifying SDS
3. SDS in the Spotlight, Fall1965
SDS in the Semi-Dark
The Spotlight Switches On
Making the Most of the Glare
The Media, the Right, and the Administration
Item: The Katzenbach Press Conference
"Build, Not Burn"
Developing Themes, I: The Movement Divided
Developing Themes, II: The Movement Confronted
Developing Themes, III: The Movement Legitimate and
Illegitimate
Part II. MEDIA IN THE MAKING AND UNMAKING OF THE MOVEMENT
4. Organizational Crisis, 1965
The Membership Surge and Prairie Power
Who Will Speak into the Microphone? The
Obsolescence of the Old Guard
From Community to Mass Movement
Political Consequences of the Early Coverage,
and Sources of 50S's Vulnerability
5. Certifying Leaders and Converting
Leadership to Celebrity
The Manufacture of Celebrity
The Vulnerability of Ambivalent Leaders
Celebrity as Resource: Pyramiding
Celebrity as Career: Performing
Celebrity as Trap: Abdicating
Alternatives for Leadership
6. Inflating Rhetoric and Militancy
'The New Left Turns to Mood of Violence"
Revolutionary Will and Action News
The Aestheticizing of Violence in Films
Militancy and the Movement
7. Elevating Moderate Alternatives:
The Moment of Reform
The Tet Crisis and American Elites
Media on a Tightrope: Extraordinary Measures to
Secure Moderating Frames
Moratorium and Mobilization
Routines and Stereotypes
8. Contracting Time and Eclipsing Context
On Discontinuity and the Decontextualization
of Experience
The Vulnerability of a Student Movement
9. Broadcasting and Containment
Part III. HEGEMONY, CRISIS, AND OPPOSITION
10. Media Routines and Political Crises
Theories of the News
Ideological Hegemony as a Process
The Workings of Hegemony in Journalism
The Limits of Hegemonic Routine
11. Seventies Going on Eighties
Implications for Movements
Some Recent Frames: The Treatment of Movements
Against Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons
Appendix on Sources and Methods
The Movement
The Media
On Analyzing News
Selected Bibliography
Index
